London mayoral election 2012: Time to back Boris Johnson and true Tory values

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London mayoral election 2012: Time to back Boris Johnson and true Tory values

April 30th, 2012

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PUBLISHED:

17:04 EST, 30 April 2012

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UPDATED:

17:26 EST, 30 April 2012

In two days, voters go to the polls for local elections with national significance.

Will Ed Miliband, who has performed so miserably at the ballot box to date, be able to capitalise on recent government incompetence and make gains outside the Labour heartlands? Will the Lib Dems suffer the expected rout?

Crucially, what will happen in London, where Boris Johnson is locked in a bitter mayoral contest with the disinterred Labour dinosaur Ken Livingstone?

Mr Johnson is unashamed of his core Tory principles. He believes in a small state and low taxes - just what Britain needs to make the economy competitive

Mr Johnson is unashamed of his core Tory principles. He believes in a small state and low taxes – just what Britain needs to make the economy competitive

Win, and Mr Johnson will give the Tories something to cheer after the bungled Budget, the fuel strike debacle, the cash-for-access scandal and revelations over Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB takeover bid.

Lose, and the Prime Minister and his team will get the blame for wrecking the re-election campaign of a popular Mayor with a strong track record of governing.

The febrile Westminster village may even decide that David Cameron is a man who cannot win an election outright.

Labour – despite Ed Miliband’s lack of credible policies – will scent the possibility of a most unlikely (and frightening) victory in 2015.

The positive news for Tories is that Mr Johnson is not afflicted by the weaknesses currently undermining the government.

Mr Cameron’s administration, hampered by the Lib Dems, still lacks a coherent strategy for dragging Britain out of recession and worryingly appears bereft of a clearly identifiable set of beliefs.

Mr Johnson is unashamed of his core Tory principles. He believes in a small state and low taxes – just what Britain needs to make the economy competitive.

He has frozen council tax for the last four years – saving the average Londoner a cumulative £445 – and plans to cut it by 10 per cent over the next four years.

True, he has a chequered personal life and buffoonish persona, but for all his faults the Mayor has been steely in his determination to stand up for Londoners – even (or perhaps especially) when that means attacking his own party.

Yesterday, for example, he was tearing into the government for the ongoing shambles at Heathrow, warning that two-and-a-half-hour queues were giving a ‘terrible impression’ of the UK.

There is one other compelling reason to vote for Mr Johnson: Ken Livingstone.

During his time in office (2000-2008), ‘Red Ken’ – a hard-line socialist throwback whose views have offended large sections of society – was spendthrift and divisive.

Now we discover he is also a stinking hypocrite – attacking tax avoidance while refusing to come clean about his own murky affairs.

Mr Johnson may not be perfect – what modern-day politician is? But he is undoubtedly the best man to be Mayor and represent London on the world stage during the Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Whatever the government’s mistakes, those who believe in core Tory values should lend him their vote on Thursday.

Defending the Games

Surface-to-air missiles for shooting down hijacked planes fixed to the roofs of flats… our only aircraft carrier, packed with troops and helicopters, moored in the Thames… a bigger military force than was sent to Afghanistan…

Yesterday, the Defence Ministry officials in charge of Olympic security outlined a show of military strength which would have the Chinese nodding in approval.

Of course, nobody underestimates the challenge posed by hosting the Games or will ever forget how terrorists brought mass murder to the capital on 7/7.

But isn’t the danger that, if Ministers create a disproportionately oppressive security regime, the public will be deterred from getting wholeheartedly involved in an event that has swallowed £9billion of their money?